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Prudencia Grifell

Prudencia Grifell (December 27, 1879 – June 7, 1970), born Prudencia Grifell Masipon, was a prolific actress of the Golden Era of the Cinema of Mexico. Grifell was born to Spanish stage actors and started her acting career herself at the age of ten in theater in Venezuela and touring Spain and Latin America. By the 1900s she had become very popular and moved to Mexico to continue her career in stage, after the Spanish Civil War she decided not to go back to that country but instead to relocate in Mexico permanently after 1940. Three years later, already at the age of 61, she appeared in her first film Internado para señoritas ("Girls Boarding School") with the stars Mapy Cortés, Emilio Tuero and Katy Jurado. Just as Sara García, her co-star as the Vivanco sisters in two films, she mostly played feisty but lovable granny roles. Born : 27th-Dec-1879

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Over the Waves

The life of the musician Juventino Rosas, who despite his talent lived an existence of misfortune and poverty.
Released : 13th-Sep-1950

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Angel Face

Mischievous little girl pulls a variety of pranks for the purpose of preventing her parents from divorcing.
Released : 1st-Mar-1956

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Why Was I Born a Woman?

A family gathers to celebrate Mother's Day, that day a woman discuss many problems about her woman condition; husband, children and grandchildren will hear she tired and overwhelmed silenced by submission and obedience. Analysis of the family and gender roles.
Released : 20th-Aug-1970

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Soledad

Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she runs away from the farm. During her flight she meets a group of artists that'll change her life.
Released : 28th-Nov-1947

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Nosotros los rateros

A young woman, a thief and a lawyer find themselves in the same hotel room without planning it. Mercedes, the thief, has a brother who, by mistake, kidnaps the lawyer Alberto, which will cause a mess.
Released : 7th-Sep-1949

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Los nietos de Don Venancio


Released : 13th-Jun-1946

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Internado para señoritas

1940s-style teen comedy set in a private school for girls.
Released : 11th-Nov-1943

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X Murderer

A murderer turns himself to the police, but claims amnesia and insists he's unable to tell them anything about his crime.
Released : 18th-Mar-1955

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Those Green Eyes

Orphan girl under the protection of a benefactor begins to suspect that her mother had an affair with him and that he's her father.
Released : 22nd-Apr-1952

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The Monster of the Shadow


Released : 10th-Mar-1955

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The Third Word

The English-language title of this Mexican musical was The Third Word. Singer Pedro Infante stars as a pampered young man who is sheltered by his doting aunts. Deciding that their darling boy needs an education, the ladies hire pretty schoolteacher Marga Lopez. Upon discovering that her pupil is 28 years old, Marga is momentarily nonplused, but then settles into her duties. Inevitably, romance blossoms between Pedro and Marga, much to the aunts' dismay.
Released : 3rd-Jul-1956

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El genial Detective Peter Pérez

Bumbling detective solves a murder on board a train.
Released : 3rd-Sep-1952

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Cuando me vaya

Fictionalized version of the life of songwriter Maria Grever.
Released : 4th-Jun-1954

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La ladrona

Twin sisters butt heads over a feller. One goes into a convent, the other becomes a professional thiefstress.
Released : 18th-Mar-1954

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To Hell with Women

Small-town elects a female mayor. She suppresses all the time-honored masculine pastimes, and the men rebel.
Released : 17th-Feb-1955

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The Case of the Wee Murdered Woman

Ghosts and premonitions; a married woman discovers the true love of her life while being plagued with supernatural phenomena relating to her imminent murder. It's a comedy.
Released : 27th-May-1955

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El plagiario

Gangster's daughter learns about her dad's illegalist lifestyle.
Released : 28th-Apr-1955

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Una mujer en la calle

An implausible accident causes a street prostitute to become close friends with an aristocratic old lady.
Released : 3rd-Feb-1955

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Two Faces Have the Destiny

Ruined alcoholic doctor escapes a tropical plague and begins a new life back in civilization, taking over the identity of a dead man.
Released : 21st-Mar-1952

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Mi desconocida esposa

After moving from Guadalajara to Mexico City, a young woman gets embroiled in a series of puzzling mistaken-identity misadventures.
Released : 22nd-Jan-1958

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The Vivanco Ladies

Two women of lesser descent are dedicated to stealing to support their brother's daughter.
Released : 9th-Apr-1959

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Senda prohibida

The story of Nora, a poor but ambitious young woman, who uses her beauty to seduce a rich and married lawyer.
Released : 6th-Apr-1961

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Pensión de artistas

Between-engagements troupers at a theatrical boarding-house con a rich acquaintance into financing a show.
Released : 24th-Aug-1956

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Préstame tu cuerpo

Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body.
Released : 1st-Apr-1958

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Póker de ases

Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.
Released : 25th-Dec-1952

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Pepito and the Monster

The boy Pepito, is looking for work to help his grandmother, who is not receiving her pension. He wants to be a magician's assistant, and thus begin his problems because a crime happens and a monster appears.
Released : 30th-Sep-1957

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El señor doctor

It's about a country doctor that comes to the city while a clinic is built in his home town... he rubs off his care and compassion on others at the hospital with his humor and wit.
Released : 7th-Oct-1965

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The Shadow of the Strongman

Post-revolucionary Mexico. War secretary Hilario Jiménez is chosen as the candidate for presidency, but he isn't so sure about it, because he knows that his boss and current president, El Caudillo, has chosen a second one.
Released : 22nd-Aug-1960

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The Trial of the Vivanco Ladies

After being arrested the two adorable grannies spend some time in jail and then stand trial for the robberies they've committed.
Released : 18th-Jan-1961

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Caperucita y sus tres amigos

Villagers think the Big Bad Wolf has returned to his fierce, wild-animal ways. Also gypsies.
Released : 20th-Apr-1961

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La hermana blanca

A young woman believes her fiance has died, and she enters a convent.
Released : 19th-Jul-1960

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Las infieles

Governess falls in love with the uncle of the children she's teaching. Then complications.
Released : 9th-Jul-1953

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School for Mothers-in-Law

Dizzy society matron plucks a hobo out of the gutter to rehabilitate him.
Released : 1st-Dec-1958

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Después de la tormenta

This Mexican melodrama may have been released above the border as After the Storm. The principal characters are a pair of twin lighthouse keepers. They try their best to live together with their wives under the same roof, but the delicate balance is shattered when one of the brothers falls in love with his sister-in-law. When one twin is lost during a storm, the other assumes his identity, with the expected romantic complications. If Despues de la Termenta sounds familiar, it is because the screenplay was inspired by the 1946 Bette Davis vehicle A Stolen Life.
Released : 21st-Jan-1955

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Mis abuelitas... no más!

Bush-league actor allows two adorable grannies to believe he's their long-lost grandson. Then: complications!
Released : 30th-Mar-1961

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El globo de Cantolla

Three boys and three girls in the 1890s.
Released : 7th-Jul-1944

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El hombre que me gusta

A man facing bankruptcy and ruin rehearses a couple of scenarios relating to suicide, until his family convinces him he's worth more alive than dead.
Released : 13th-Nov-1958

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The Force of Desire

Wicked girl uses nude modeling as a way to seduce a wealthy painter into marriage, while still trying to keep an artschool stud piece on the side.
Released : 22nd-Jul-1955

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La dama del alba

Family rescues a woman from the river nearby where their daughter committed suicide years before. Unresolved mysteries. And meanwhile, there's a mysterious woman in black who shows up at the hacienda just before somebody dies.
Released : 25th-Feb-1950

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The Waltzes came from Vienna and the Children from Paris

Unmarried opera singer has a baby, and her friends convince her to pass it off as the grandchild of a wealthy old lady.
Released : 13th-Jan-1966

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Adulterio

Man commits suicide over his wife's infidelity. His father spends the rest of his life trying to figure out which of son's two children is illegitimate.
Released : 1st-Mar-1945

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Horas de agonía

Nubile young woman seems to be quite free with her affections... but she has a deep, dark secret. Deep. Dark.
Released : 8th-Jan-1958

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Ladronzuela

Homeless girl placed in a court-appointed foster home under the care of a social worker.
Released : 28th-Dec-1949

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María Cristina

Decent, hard-working young woman gradually finds her way toward love and happiness. With occasional spasms of Afro-Cuban dancing.
Released : 15th-Nov-1951

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México nunca duerme

Fretful granny is upset when her granddaughter isn't home by 9 PM on Saturday night, so she teams up with a gangster to tour Mexico City nightclubs looking for her.
Released : 26th-Mar-1959

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El ruiseñor del barrio

Ten or twelve years ago, a young man wrecked his car and his wife was killed in the accident. Today, his wealthy mother-in-law is still full of hatred and bitterness toward him, and she prefers not to acknowledge her granddaughter. Will love and tenderness find their way into the crusty old bitch's heart?
Released : 15th-Aug-1952

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Mi adorado salvaje

The old folks back home in Spain have arranged a marriage for their niece living in Mexico. To side-step their demands, she pretends to be already married, with a male acquaintance who agrees to pose as her husband while her relatives are visiting.
Released : 21st-Mar-1952

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Nuestras vidas

Frivolous woman falls in reallytruly love for the first time, but her past catches up with her and her fiancé kicks her to the curb. Then joining a convent and amnesia and stuff.
Released : 24th-May-1950

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Little Red Riding Hood

The classic story of the Red Riding Hood spiced up by a couple of funny characters like the dog Duke, companion to the girl in her adventures, and the stinky Skunk, henchman to the Wolf.
Released : 5th-May-1959

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Prisionera del pasado

Romance between a flamenco singer performing in Mexico and a gov't soldier during the Mexican Revolution.
Released : 28th-Oct-1954

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Recién casados... no molestar

Newly-married woman discovers that her husband's a virgin and not the notorious Don Juan that she'd heard rumors about, and their marriage almost collapses because he's faithful and monogamous and good.
Released : 9th-Aug-1951

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